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September 3, 2010
Not a Good Payroll Report
The BLS: "Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6 percent. Government...'
September 2, 2010
links for 2010-09-02
Jillian Rayfield: Jan Brewer Speechless On Headless Bodies (VIDEO): http://tinyurl.com/2dmsop4 #worthreading
Jan Brewer's Unmitigatedly Terrible Debate Performance - TIME NewsFeed
Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) needs to see a neurologist: http://tinyurl.com/2csynpr #worthreading
@delong bait: Taylor still doesn't...
Why We Would All Be Better Off If the Washington Post Shut Down Today: Another Example
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?
The New York Times and the Washington Post cover Christina Romer's farewell address:
NEW YORK TIMES: Romer's Farewell: We Averted Another Depression: JACKIE CALMES: Christina Romer, the departing chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, is to say in a farewell speech today that the administration’s responses to the economic crisis it inherited averted “a second Great Depression” and kindled a slow recovery, according to...
Andy Harless Is Shrill
Looking at the bond market does that to you:
Employment, Interest, and Money: Bond Market Instability in a Liquidity Trap: [W:]ith bond yields having fallen significantly over the past few months, the Fed ought to get off its ass and start making credible threats to revive the economy before bond yields fall even more and reduce its ability to do so. For another thing, it means that we shouldn’t be too surprised to see the bond market behaving oddly. Whether or not one can reasonably call...
Joshua Green's Verdict on the Obama Presidency Mark I
Joshua Green:
Why the Stimulus Ran Out of Steam: The faltering recovery and the credibility this has cost the the White House will probably lose the Democrats one or both houses of Congress, making the insufficiency of the stimulus easily the most consequential error for an administration that has done a lot right. To appreciate how it happened, it's necessary to understand the twin imperatives that dominate White House thinking....
Barack Obama's [administration has a:] devotion to...
Liveblogging World War II: September 2, 1940
Destroyer deal:
Monday, September 2, 1940: Following the agreement made in July and later detailed negotiations, a deal is now ratified between Britain and the USA by which Britain gets 50 old destroyers, veterans of World War I, but desperately needed for escort work, in return for bases granted to the United States in the West Indies and Bermuda. Considerable modification will be necessary to make the ships ready for service...
September 1, 2010
links for 2010-09-01
@delong Here are some more errors for you to correct: http://bit.ly/dauZoT
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Think Progress » Emails Reveal McCain Campaign Misled The Public About Palin's $150K Plus Shopping Spree
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